Upper Respiratory System

Question 1

What is the function of the respiratory system?

Answer 1

Air distributer and gas exchanger, supplying oxygen and removing carbon dioxide.
Also warms, filters, and humidifies air

Question 2

What is olfaction?

Answer 2

Smell

Question 3

Everything in the respiratory system, except for Alveoli

Answer 3

Air distributors

Question 4

Sacs that serve as gas exchangers

Answer 4

Alveoli

Question 5

What are the parts of the upper respiratory tract?

Answer 5

Nose, nasopharynx, oropharynx, laryngopharynx and larynx

Question 6

What are the parts of the lower respiratory tract?

Answer 6

Trachea, bronchial tree, lungs

Question 7

What are the accessory structures of the respiratory system?

Answer 7

Oral cavity, ribcage, diaphragm

Question 8

External portion consists of a bony and cartilaginous frame covered by skin containing sebaceous glands

Answer 8

Structure of the NOSE

Question 9

What are the two nasal bones surrounded by superiorly?

Answer 9

Frontal bone

Question 10

What are the two nasal bone surrounded by laterally?

Answer 10

The maxilla

Question 11

Where does the nasal bone meet the frontal bone?

Answer 11

Nasion

Question 12

Where is the nasal cavity located?

Answer 12

Over the roof of the mouth, seperated by palatine and maxillary bones

Question 13

What seperated the roof of the nose from the cranial cavity?

Answer 13

Cribriform plate (of Ethmoid bone)

Question 14

Separates the nasal cavity into right and left cavities

Answer 14

Septum

Question 15

What 4 structures create the septum?

Answer 15

-perpendicular plate of the ethmoid bone
-vomer bone
-vomeronasal cartilages
-septal nasal cartilage

Question 16

Why is the nasal cavity divided into two?

Answer 16

To increase surface area to filter, warm, humidify

Question 17

How many passageways are each nasal cavity divided in to?

Answer 17

3

Question 18

What are the 3 passageways of the nasal cavity called?

Answer 18

Superior, middle and inferior meatuses

Question 19

What are the meatuses created by?

Answer 19

Concha
(Small shell like bone structure)

Question 20

External openings to nasal cavities; open into vestibule

Answer 20

Anterior nares ( nostrils )

Question 21

Where is vestibule located?

Answer 21

Lies just inside the nasal cavity

Question 22

Coarse hairs in the vestibule to stop particulates from entering system

Answer 22

Vibriasse

Question 23

What is the sequence of air flow through the nose into the pharynx?

Answer 23

Anterior nares -> vestibule -> 3 meatuses simultaneously-> posterior nares -> nasopharynx

Question 24

A mucous membrane that has a pseudostratified ciliated columnar epithelium with numerous goblet cells that produce and release mucous; it contains a rich blood supply
(Referred to as olfactory epithelium)

Answer 24

Respiratory mucosa

Question 25

Special sensory membrane containing many olfactory nerve cells and a rich lymphatic plexus

Answer 25

Olfactory epithelium

Question 26

A tubelike structure 12.5 cm extending from the base of the skull to the esophagus; anterior to the cervical spine and made of muscle. Is divided into 3 parts

Answer 26

Pharynx

Question 27

Located behind the nose from the posterior nares to the level of the soft palate

Answer 27

Nasopharynx

Question 28

Located behind the mouth from the soft palate to the level of the hyoid bone ( hyoid bone at level of C-3)

Answer 28

Oropharynx

Question 29

Extends from hyoid bone to esophagus

Answer 29

Laryngopharynx

Question 30

Where are pharyngeal tonsils located?

Answer 30

In the nasopharynx (Most superior)

Question 31

Where are the palatine tonsils and the lingual tonsils located?

Answer 31

Oropharynx Palatine ( most commonly removed) Lingual (below tongue)

Question 32

How many openings are there to the pharynx?

Answer 32

7

Question 33

The pharynx affects speech production

Answer 33

True

Question 34

Both air and food pass through the pharynx

Answer 34

True

Question 35

Positioned between the root of the tongue and the upper end of the trachea (C3-C6)

Answer 35

Larynx

Question 36

What are the 3 laryngeal cartilages?

Answer 36

Thyroid cartilage (Adam’s apple), epiglottis, cricoid cartilages

Question 37

Has a free superior border that moves up and down during swallowing to prevent food or liquid from entering the trachea

Answer 37

Epiglottis

Question 38

Three pairs of smaller cartilages

Answer 38

Paired laryngeal cartilages

Question 39

What are the three paired laryngeal cartilages?

Answer 39

Arytenoid, corniculate, cuneiform

Question 40

What is the largest cartilage in the larynx?

Answer 40

Thyroid cartilage